Archive for the 'blogging' Category

Of Keywords and Key phrases

Keyword selection to promote a site is not as easy and obvious as it seems. Is there anything hard at all about using a generic word that most appropriately applies to one’s site? Using it is not hard but being seen among the many others that might have chosen the same obvious word […]

How to tell if someone is faking their Feedburner count

Take a look at my furthest right sidebar - you’ll see I have 162 subscribers. Or do I? I just had 20 yesterday. I must have gained 142 readers overnight!
Get real.
Bloggers can easily cheat with Feedburner to make their RSS subscriber count look much higher than it really is. All they […]

A note to the Carnival of College Blogging’s contributors

Please only contribute one article per edition of the carnival.
I know I wasn’t very clear with that rule early on, but I tried to make a note of it this time around on the submission page. Enacting this rule actually benefits both of us – it makes the carnival look less spammy and more […]

How I Survive

I’m a college student without a job.  I don’t have parent money coming in every week and I’m certainly not doing anything illegal (I’m not selling drugs or running a prostitution ring).  So how am I surviving?

Coming tomorrow: Inside my life

I’m going to bring you an interesting post tomorrow, one I’m going to title “Inside My Life.”  Basically, I’ll describe and show you what my morning is like.  When I get up, where I go, what I do - fair game.  I’ll also fill you in on how I make money with another post, “How […]

Please don’t sue, come to Vegas

I was happy to see that Christine over at the passionate ailurophile was finally given the trip she rightfully won. All it took was the threat of some legal action and she had her flights booked and Las Vegas hotel reservations taken care of in no time. I must admit, I never really […]

I set my clocks early ’cause I know I’m always late

ProBlogger.net had a contest the other day where readers submitted little catchphrases and icons for the Google PageRank fiasco. Now that the contest is officially over, I’d like to toss my hat into the ring. Ladies and gentlemen, my image:

Feel free to save this and post it on your own site if you’d […]

This blog is now a PageRank 3

How cool!  So have we experienced that long awaited update or is my PR checker in the sidebar lying to me?  Anyway, I’m sorry that this isn’t much of a post.  I’m just really excited now and I’m hoping some new readers get sent my way!

My blogs are growing

Some pretty cool things happened yesterday.  First off, beer.pizza.tech set a feed subscriber record at 17 readers.  I’m not pulling ProBlogger numbers, but for a small blogger such as myself, the fact that 17 people want to subscribe to what I write every day means a lot and is really cool.  I also appreciate those […]

Facebook’s response to my complaint about Flyers Pro

Below you’ll find a message I wrote to Facebook customer service via the help section of the Facebook site.  After that, you’ll find the response they gave me.  I wrote my piece to them after I had learned that two of my advertising campaigns had been disabled.
To Facebook:
“What exactly ARE we allowed to use them […]